This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled UBIFS: remove mst_mutex to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ubifs-remove-mst_mutex.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 07e19dff63e3d5d6500d831e36554ac9b1b0560e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:55:02 +0300 Subject: UBIFS: remove mst_mutex From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 07e19dff63e3d5d6500d831e36554ac9b1b0560e upstream. The 'mst_mutex' is not needed since because 'ubifs_write_master()' is only called on the mount path and commit path. The mount path is sequential and there is no parallelism, and the commit path is also serialized - there is only one commit going on at a time. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ubifs/commit.c | 2 -- fs/ubifs/master.c | 7 +++---- fs/ubifs/super.c | 1 - fs/ubifs/ubifs.h | 2 -- 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ubifs/commit.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/commit.c @@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ static int do_commit(struct ubifs_info * if (err) goto out; - mutex_lock(&c->mst_mutex); c->mst_node->cmt_no = cpu_to_le64(c->cmt_no); c->mst_node->log_lnum = cpu_to_le32(new_ltail_lnum); c->mst_node->root_lnum = cpu_to_le32(zroot.lnum); @@ -204,7 +203,6 @@ static int do_commit(struct ubifs_info * else c->mst_node->flags &= ~cpu_to_le32(UBIFS_MST_NO_ORPHS); err = ubifs_write_master(c); - mutex_unlock(&c->mst_mutex); if (err) goto out; --- a/fs/ubifs/master.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/master.c @@ -352,10 +352,9 @@ int ubifs_read_master(struct ubifs_info * ubifs_write_master - write master node. * @c: UBIFS file-system description object * - * This function writes the master node. The caller has to take the - * @c->mst_mutex lock before calling this function. Returns zero in case of - * success and a negative error code in case of failure. The master node is - * written twice to enable recovery. + * This function writes the master node. Returns zero in case of success and a + * negative error code in case of failure. The master node is written twice to + * enable recovery. */ int ubifs_write_master(struct ubifs_info *c) { --- a/fs/ubifs/super.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c @@ -1970,7 +1970,6 @@ static struct ubifs_info *alloc_ubifs_in mutex_init(&c->lp_mutex); mutex_init(&c->tnc_mutex); mutex_init(&c->log_mutex); - mutex_init(&c->mst_mutex); mutex_init(&c->umount_mutex); mutex_init(&c->bu_mutex); mutex_init(&c->write_reserve_mutex); --- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h +++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h @@ -1042,7 +1042,6 @@ struct ubifs_debug_info; * * @mst_node: master node * @mst_offs: offset of valid master node - * @mst_mutex: protects the master node area, @mst_node, and @mst_offs * * @max_bu_buf_len: maximum bulk-read buffer length * @bu_mutex: protects the pre-allocated bulk-read buffer and @c->bu @@ -1282,7 +1281,6 @@ struct ubifs_info { struct ubifs_mst_node *mst_node; int mst_offs; - struct mutex mst_mutex; int max_bu_buf_len; struct mutex bu_mutex; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ubifs-fix-free-log-space-calculation.patch queue-3.10/ubifs-remove-mst_mutex.patch queue-3.10/ubifs-fix-a-race-condition.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html